TEDx Conference: Intersections – TED IZMIR COLLEGE
TEDxYouth@IzmirTED
x = independently organized TED event
 

Theme: Intersections / Crossroads

 
April 2, 2022
10:00am - 5:00pm +03
(UTC +3hrs)
Izmir, İzmir
Turkey
This event is invite-only.
www.ted.com/tedx/events/43440
 

Your life; Does it have a roadmap that takes us directly or without shortcuts to happiness and success, a guide to which direction we should deviate, whether we have achieved our goal or not?

All our choices are on this journey, called life, which continues from the day we came into the world to our last breath; it consists of surprising and unexpected coincidences, situations that always serve the good, and intersections planned by a consciousness that we are not aware of.

In the organization of TEDxYouth@TEDIzmir; We want to see valuable speakers among us who will set an example, shine a light and shine a light on the young people we carry responsibility for.

Where did your experiences, choices and intersections take you? As much as you've accomplished; Do you want to inspire young people with what you have failed to achieve, your frustrations, what you want to do and what you cannot do, and accompany their journeys with your own story?

Speakers

Açalya Öralay

Entrepreneur


Açalya After attending primary and high school at TED Ankara College, Öralay graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography, Department of Japanese Language and Literature. He continued his education in Japan for 1 year. When he returned, he worked as a professional tourist guide and tourism agency in the tourism sector. He entered the food and beverage sector with restaurant management. In 2005, he founded Cakestudio with his partner. Working with famous chefs of major chain brands, he provided menu support and product supply. It was the first in the sector with frozen cake, cheesecake and bakery that are not available in Turkey. He founded the Electrolux Studio cooking school. In 2017, Cake Studio sold its brand to Turkey's largest frozen food companies. Öralay graduated from Anadolu University, Department of Cookery and Harvard Science and Cooking From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science. He received trainings on ecological restaurants and permaculture related to sustainable agriculture. Öralay is currently serving as the Founding Representative of TED Izmir College. She is the mother of two children.

Arda Erkan

Student


Arda Erkan was born in Izmir in 2003. Arda Erkan, who graduated from TED Izmir College, tried to gain experience in many different fields while trying to become the scientist she wanted to be during her high school life, traveled to see what she wanted to change and correct, and compiled situations that would contribute to her own purpose from these experiences. He is currently studying physics at Bilkent University and wants to continue his life as an academic.

Berfin Chechen Senol

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After graduating from Ankara Private Tevfik Fikret Primary and High School, Berfin Çeçen Şenol continued his education at Bilkent University Faculty of Law. After graduating, he completed a legal internship as a lawyer and then completed his master's degree in commercial/corporate law at Queen Mary University of London. After returning to Istanbul, he opened a law firm focusing on art law and simultaneously worked in the legal department of IC Holding. He is currently working as a board member and lawyer at CCN Holding. At the same time, as a member of the board of directors of the İbrahim Çeçen Foundation, he also carries out activities on behalf of social responsibility.

Berna Liberation

Educator, Writer


He was born in Istanbul in 1970. After completing his high school education at "Private Saint Benoit French High School", he entered the department of "Bosphorus University Interpreter". He was a freelance written and oral translator for a long time. In 2000, he started to work as an English Teacher at Göztepe Ihsan Kurşunoglu High School. He completed his master's program in Education Management and Supervision at Yeditepe University. After a long tenure as an English teacher at MEF High School, he has been working as a high school vice principal at TED Izmir College since 2016.

Nature Rutkay

Theater Artist, TV Program Presenter


Doğa Rutkay was born in Ankara. His father is the theater actor Rutkay Aziz. She graduated from Istanbul Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory Theatre Department in 2000. For 3 seasons he presented the program "Everything is at This Table with Nature Rutkay". "Buyur Burdan Bak, "Doğa ile Midnight", "Çocuktan Al Haberi" and "Doğa'yla Doğa'le Gourmet Sohbetler" (Gourmet Conversations with Nature) continued her presenter career. She played in the commercials of Card Finans, Cif Power & Shine Spray, Measure Baby Cloth, Blendax Shampoo, Redexon, Saka Su, Doğuş Çay and made nearly 100 advertising voices. She appeared in 15 TV series, 13 films and 16 theater plays. She is currently starring as Yeter in Show TV's "Güldür Güldür Show". She is married and has 2 children.

Güniz Powerkoglu

Overseas College Counselor


After graduating from Şişli Terakki High School in 1990, he was a rotary club exchange student and a guest student at Padbury High School in Perth, Australia for one year. In 1996, he completed his studies at Bilkent University and worked in the tourism sector for a while. He began his career in education in 1997 in the student affairs office of a private university as a result of what he considered a chance. He worked as an education consultant abroad for more than 12 years at one of Istanbul's elite private high schools. During this time, he participated in many conferences, fairs and trainings abroad. He obtained a certificate of consultation from universities in the United Kingdom, became a competent representative of universities in these countries, and has visited more than 100 university campuses in Asia, Europe, the UK, Canada and the UNITED States. Güniz has been living in Urla for the last 2 years and has established and is currently working at TED Izmir College.

Hamdi Alkan

Film Producer, Director, Actor


He was born on July 15, 1967, in Döver Village in Antakya. He came to Istanbul and studied electrical engineering at Yildiz Technical University. He was a theatre teacher and general art director in the theater department at Yildiz Technical University. He entered the world of TV with the program "3 up and down". Hamdi Alkan has done sketches and comedy shows on TRT and many special channels. In 2001, he guest starred in the film "Sellale". In 2004, he made the Project of The Stars of Turkey competition on Show TV. In 2007, he directed the film "Bayrampasa". He directed the film "Our Lesson Ataturk", which Turgut Özakman wrote. There are collections such as banners, tin toys, old razor collection, match collection, binoculars collection, picture collection, rosary collection, pen collection, pocketknife collection, business card collection. He is married with two daughters.

Merve Begum Altuntas

Student


Merve Begüm Altuntaş was born in Izmir in 2006. In 2016, as a Full Education Scholarship student, she started her education at TED Izmir College and continues her education at the 10th grade level within the scope of the Scientist Training Program. Thanks to his interest in science, literature, art and politics and his effort to take every opportunity to improve himself, he has participated in many conferences, competitions and projects, both national and international. He represented Turkey with his team in the British English Olympics International Debate Competitions and won the first place; He has won many competitions for his literary, academic and philosophical writings. Currently, he is still a regular writer for TEDebiyat and COMMITTED journals, conducts a TÜBİTAK project in the field of biology and represents the province of Izmir as a Science Ambassador within the scope of STREAM It Up project.

Free Aksuna

Radio Programmer, Communication Instructor


1978 Ankara. He completed his education in the fields of Environmental Engineering, Economics, Turkish Music Conservatory and Psychology Master's Program in a multidisciplinary manner.In 1995, he started working at TRT Ankara Radio and TRT Ankara Television, working at NTV for a while and still living his broadcast life on Max Fm with his broadcasting team for 25 years. He is a TEDx Speaker. RTGD "Radiographer of the Year" Oscar, Communication Foundation "Communicator of the Year", Bilkent Brand of the Year" at Bilkent Brand Awards, Lösev "Communicator of the Year", TUSIAV "Communicator of the Year, Hacettepe University." Best Radio Personality of the Year" award. TDK is the holder of the Certificate of Honor. "Harvard University is certified with edX Rhetoric." Ozgur Aksuna Is the founder of the Academy of Development and Exchange. MAG is a writer in Ankara Life Magazines. He has a book called ASHK'A.

Pinar Çağlar

Student


Pınar Çağlar was born on 24 November 1999 in Marmaris. Visually impaired from birth. He completed his primary school education in İzmir Aşık Veysel Visually Impaired Primary School. He continued as an inclusion student from the 5th grade. He started his high school education at İzmir Bornova Anatolian High School. Thanks to the YES scholarship he received in the 11th grade, he went to the United States and completed the 11th grade at the South Carolina School for the Blind and returned to Turkey. His passion for foreign languages led him to academic travels and he continued to develop himself in this field. He finished the 12th grade at Chatham Kent Secondary School in Canada. She holds an associate degree in Languages from the College of Arts, Letters, and Communication at John Abbott College in Montreal. Then he returned to Turkey and gave English lessons. He then received the CELTA Certificate issued by the University of Cambridge. She is currently studying International Relations/Linguistic and Cultural Mediation at Università per Stranieri di Siena, Italy.

Joy Atabay

Educationalist, Activist


In 1980, he started to work in the Board of Education and Training of the Ministry of National Education. From 1991 to 1993, he was in Chicago as an Educational Attaché. After 2000, as the Coordinator General for Community Programmes of the Secretariat General for EU Affairs, he worked in the field of promoting the EU's education policies, retiring in 2006. Between 2006 and 2021, he served as the General Manager of the Turkish Education Association. Atabay, who is also a member of the EU Team established to understand the European Union, has publications on English language teaching and EU education policies. Sevinç Atabay is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors of HelpZone (Equality and Leadership Platform for All) and is a dream partner of Young Guru Academy, a member of TÜSİAD Education Commission and TOBB Education Assembly. Atabay is married and has one child.

Hope Blackbird

Chef


Karakuş, who started working in the sector in 2006 and graduated from Le Cordon Bleu culinary and pastry department with a Grand Diploma, did his internship with Michelin-starred Chef Ali Güngörgör in Munich Pageou. He pioneered many projects on Anatolian cuisine and modern appetizers in London and founded Turkey's first Spice Library in 2017. Same year 2017-18; He won "Creative Chef of the Year." Karakuş, who has signed his own signature on every plate he makes and interpreted it originally, has been writing poetry since childhood and is known as "the chef who writes poetry for food". For the last year, she has been working on a new generation locksmith's table and working on an appetizer and a spice book. Muutto istanbul, which he called "fine street food", adapted to street flavors and Galataport, which he interpreted anatolian cuisine as tapas, and muutto anadolian tapas bar, which is located in the firecracker, is also the dryer and chef partner.

Yusuf Baran

Scientist, Rector, CEO


Prof. Dr. Yusuf Baran graduated from Dicle University, Department of Biology Teaching. He completed his master's degree at METU. In 2007, he started to work as a faculty member at Izmir Institute of Technology. Prof. Dr. Yusuf Baran has more than 40 scientific research projects, over 350 published scientific articles, papers presented in national and international congresses and Cancer Molecular Biology book. He has more than 100 awards given by national and international institutions. In 2018, he was selected for the "Science Diplomacy and Leadership Workshop" as one of the 28 people selected by the American Organization for the Advancement of Science from all over the world. In 2021, he received the "Science Leader of the Year Award" from Hacettepe University and the "Innovative and Entrepreneurial Academic Leader Award" from the Aegean Development Association. Since 2018, he has been serving as the Rector of Izmir Institute of Technology and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Izmir Technology Development Zone.

Etkinlik Görselleri

Etkinlik Videoları

Organizing team

Güniz Powerkoglu

Organizer


Serpil Tuti Yellow

Co-organizer


Umit Kaya

Operations


Ali Uysal

Production


Onur Altunsaray

Production


Damla Hincalan

Marketing/ Communications


 

Mine Mavioglu

Partnerships/ Sponsorship


Açalya Öralay

Partnerships/ Sponsorship


Caner Erdem

Operations


Güliz Gez Kabasakal

Curation


Dincer Suzan

Production


Demir Bora Eryiğit

Moderated



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